The Invisible Trash Island was put there by Gaia the Earth Goddess to test your faith. I know it is hard to do, but you must learn to believe in it. We will now all recite the Holy Jurassic Temperature Reconstruction on Page 858-892 of Inconvenient Truth : The Book of our Saviour, Al Gore. When we are done, please throw some rotten vegetables at the unbelievers in the village pillory on your way back to your treadmills.
March the 4th, 212 345 632 BC, 11:00 am Northern Pangaea 23.456 degrees Centigrade. March the 4th, 212 345 632 BC, 12:00 pm Northern Pangaea 25.652 degrees Centigrade.
Solution: Greasemonky script that retrieves a list of updated goatse-style sites... and at random intervals redirects you to one of those pages instead of the link you clicked. Granted, a different kind of shock therapy, but I'd imagine its pretty effective. (or at least, you won't browse if there's someone else in the room!)
Solution: Greasemonky script that retrieves a list of updated goatse-style sites... and at random intervals redirects you to one of those pages instead of the link you clicked. Granted, a different kind of shock therapy, but I'd imagine its pretty effective. (or at least, you won't browse if there's someone else in the room!)
STOP WASTING TIME ON/. AND GO TO THE GYM, PORKY.
This post is not a troll or flamebait, it is shock therapy
'Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat.'"
Is it me or is there a subtle jab a Richard "GNU is not Unix" Stallman there. Is it possible that they hate him so much they are trolling him in a SEC filing. Or are they trying to troll Apple by pointing out that (unlike Cutler's highly succesful NT project) their Copland kernel project failed and they ended up using a BSD kernel from Nextstep. Is the idea that their enemies will read this and be driven into chair hurling rage that will sap their productivity.
Bush authorized torture at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. The next administration cancelled it. There's no comparison between him and Nixon in terms of their intelligence, ruthlessness and ability to bring down the system. I could quite see a less well designed Republic degnerating into civil war during Nixon's impeachment. Nothing Bush did ever came close to being as corrosive as that.
And locking up politicians - even ghastly ones - after they fall is not a panacea for executive nastiness. Loads of countries regularly lock up or execute fallen politicians and they are hardly Jeffersonian paradises. In fact there's a strong correlation between locking up people from previous administrations and banana republic status because once in power people will cling to it even harder if they expect to be imprisoned once they lose. Basically if you can retire peacefully you're much more likely to retire. Otherwise you might try to steal as much as possible and put tanks on the streets if people start to complain too much. Much of the world is like this - everyone knows all politicians are crooks, some have been locked up or executed for it. But that makes the ones currently in power much worse because they have no exit strategy.
What's interesting about the US is that the people that invented it were well aware of the Greek and Roman examples and designed the Republic to be resistant to the rot that set there. Certainly the US Republic has survived Richard Nixon's fall. I'd say that's impressive.
When superconductors start to work at room temperature and everyone replaces all their old copper cables with superconducting ones they could specialise in selling those and rebrand themselves as "Resistance is Futile!"
OEMs in Iraq used to sell IEless machines just before the US led invasion. Come to think of it in Afghanistan they used to do so too until the US invaded.
Hmm, I've got to go. MIBs are breaking down the door.
Einstein predicted that particles and information can't travel faster than the speed of light â" but phenomenon like radio waves? That's a different story, said Singleton, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.
Singleton has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light.
He actually compares it to the laser pointer on the moon thought experiment
"If you take a laser and shine it on the moon and swing it rather gently, for example, the spot on the moon travels faster than the speed of light," Singleton said. "If an effect can do that, it makes you wonder if you can do things with light to get the equivalent of a sonic boom."
That's what the faster-than-light radio waves â" more scientifically known as superluminal transmissions â" do. They're the light version of a sonic boom, he said.
"When something travels faster than its own wave speed you get a very large disturbance," Singleton said. "And these powerful signals that result, well, this would be how E.T., if he were out there, would likely try to communicate with us."
If Einstein were still alive, he probably wouldn't be all that surprised by the discovery, Perez said, even if it does seem on the surface to conflict with some of his theories.
Singleton doesn't claim it's an ansible - i.e. a device that can send information faster than light speed.
While no one is going to do anything if you don't get a laptop that meets these specs, if you show up for class with only a Netbook that can't run the CAD software you need, the professor doesn't have to accommodate you.
That't not true. When I was a university Professor Bormann would beat students to death with a spade if they turned up with underpowered machines.
In an idea world, yes. I've written code and it builds fine for a couple of platforms. I've also worked with code that took ages to port - third party libraries needed to be replaced, inline assembler rewritten and loads of alignment, structure packing and timing issues needed to be fixed. And architecturally it's quite easy to end up with code that depends on some subtle detail which you only find out about once you port.
But:
"John Singleton of Los Alamos and his collaborators have built a radio transmitter that incorporates a radio wave source that moves superluminally (faster than light). The emitted waves have several unusual properties. For example, they lose much less power over a distance than do ordinary radio waves; thus, they show promise for long-distance, low-power broadcasting applications."
From the link
Ordinary objects can't move faster than light. But consider a line of people where the first person snaps their fingers, then after a delay, the second person snaps theirs, and so on. The "snap" moves down the line with a speed determined by the delay, which can be arbitrarily short. Hence the snap can move arbitrarily fast.
This seems bogus to me - surely the propagation speed of the snap is limited by the speed of light.
No. This saucer company is named after Æsir, the True Norse Gods and will make drones that will be used to hunt down and KILL! Taliban and other Islamists in Afghanistan, Iraq and Malmö.
According to Norse theology those killed will then suffer forever in Hellheim. Soon the survivors will burn down their mosques and begin sacrficing to Odin to stop the attacks. Then it will be time to deal with the Christians. Eventually Ásatrú will dominate the world.
Mac office is designed to run on a different OS though. It's also apparently a different code base from the Windows version. I think the fact that Windows office is being ported to x64 means that Office is being made more portable now anyway. Really there's not much of an excuse for modern Win32 application not being portable to other processors, the problem is that Office has been around for ages and probably has a few x86isms like inline assembly back when that was necessary for performance. Or something like that. Anyhow Office 2010 will have both 32 and 64 bit binaries -
Slashdot Mirror
It would be interesting if you could fix sociopathy with a knife.
Well, you can but firearms are generally more effective and easier to employ ;)
"Have you ever taken the Voight-Kampff test yourself, Mr Deckard?"
BOO!
Vegetarian environmentalists will be at the bottom of the food chain. Carnivorous conservatives will be one step above it.
The Invisible Trash Island was put there by Gaia the Earth Goddess to test your faith. I know it is hard to do, but you must learn to believe in it. We will now all recite the Holy Jurassic Temperature Reconstruction on Page 858-892 of Inconvenient Truth : The Book of our Saviour, Al Gore. When we are done, please throw some rotten vegetables at the unbelievers in the village pillory on your way back to your treadmills.
March the 4th, 212 345 632 BC, 11:00 am Northern Pangaea 23.456 degrees Centigrade.
March the 4th, 212 345 632 BC, 12:00 pm Northern Pangaea 25.652 degrees Centigrade.
Solution: Greasemonky script that retrieves a list of updated goatse-style sites... and at random intervals redirects you to one of those pages instead of the link you clicked.
Granted, a different kind of shock therapy, but I'd imagine its pretty effective. (or at least, you won't browse if there's someone else in the room!)
Solution: Greasemonky script that retrieves a list of updated goatse-style sites... and at random intervals redirects you to one of those pages instead of the link you clicked. Granted, a different kind of shock therapy, but I'd imagine its pretty effective. (or at least, you won't browse if there's someone else in the room!)
STOP WASTING TIME ON /. AND GO TO THE GYM, PORKY.
This post is not a troll or flamebait, it is shock therapy
I dunno I like this
'Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat.'"
Is it me or is there a subtle jab a Richard "GNU is not Unix" Stallman there. Is it possible that they hate him so much they are trolling him in a SEC filing. Or are they trying to troll Apple by pointing out that (unlike Cutler's highly succesful NT project) their Copland kernel project failed and they ended up using a BSD kernel from Nextstep. Is the idea that their enemies will read this and be driven into chair hurling rage that will sap their productivity.
I'd like to think so.
Meh.
Bush authorized torture at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. The next administration cancelled it. There's no comparison between him and Nixon in terms of their intelligence, ruthlessness and ability to bring down the system. I could quite see a less well designed Republic degnerating into civil war during Nixon's impeachment. Nothing Bush did ever came close to being as corrosive as that.
And locking up politicians - even ghastly ones - after they fall is not a panacea for executive nastiness. Loads of countries regularly lock up or execute fallen politicians and they are hardly Jeffersonian paradises. In fact there's a strong correlation between locking up people from previous administrations and banana republic status because once in power people will cling to it even harder if they expect to be imprisoned once they lose. Basically if you can retire peacefully you're much more likely to retire. Otherwise you might try to steal as much as possible and put tanks on the streets if people start to complain too much. Much of the world is like this - everyone knows all politicians are crooks, some have been locked up or executed for it. But that makes the ones currently in power much worse because they have no exit strategy.
I was going for a reference to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuauKKjPZI
What's interesting about the US is that the people that invented it were well aware of the Greek and Roman examples and designed the Republic to be resistant to the rot that set there. Certainly the US Republic has survived Richard Nixon's fall. I'd say that's impressive.
"Do not ride the bomb" signs were declared Un American and banned in an executive order signed by President George W Bush.
Um ... no. You realize "penetrate" has meaning completely separate from sexual acts, right?
[Beavis and Butthead style laughter]
You said "sexual".
Infowars:
No war for shit!
Fox News:
More news on Shitholistan's WMD program!
When superconductors start to work at room temperature and everyone replaces all their old copper cables with superconducting ones they could specialise in selling those and rebrand themselves as "Resistance is Futile!"
Can't you work it out?
Hint
http://bluemaster.iu.hio.no/edu/dark/lin-asm/syscalls.html
OEMs in Iraq used to sell IEless machines just before the US led invasion. Come to think of it in Afghanistan they used to do so too until the US invaded.
Hmm, I've got to go. MIBs are breaking down the door.
So you're saying that it's all due to some sort of conspiracy?
I'm still not convinced that this allows information to travel faster than light.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/HealthandScience/LANL_scientist_makes_radio_waves_travel_faster_than_light
Einstein predicted that particles and information can't travel faster than the speed of light â" but phenomenon like radio waves? That's a different story, said Singleton, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.
Singleton has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light.
He actually compares it to the laser pointer on the moon thought experiment
"If you take a laser and shine it on the moon and swing it rather gently, for example, the spot on the moon travels faster than the speed of light," Singleton said. "If an effect can do that, it makes you wonder if you can do things with light to get the equivalent of a sonic boom."
That's what the faster-than-light radio waves â" more scientifically known as superluminal transmissions â" do. They're the light version of a sonic boom, he said.
"When something travels faster than its own wave speed you get a very large disturbance," Singleton said. "And these powerful signals that result, well, this would be how E.T., if he were out there, would likely try to communicate with us."
If Einstein were still alive, he probably wouldn't be all that surprised by the discovery, Perez said, even if it does seem on the surface to conflict with some of his theories.
Singleton doesn't claim it's an ansible - i.e. a device that can send information faster than light speed.
While no one is going to do anything if you don't get a laptop that meets these specs, if you show up for class with only a Netbook that can't run the CAD software you need, the professor doesn't have to accommodate you.
That't not true. When I was a university Professor Bormann would beat students to death with a spade if they turned up with underpowered machines.
In an idea world, yes. I've written code and it builds fine for a couple of platforms. I've also worked with code that took ages to port - third party libraries needed to be replaced, inline assembler rewritten and loads of alignment, structure packing and timing issues needed to be fixed. And architecturally it's quite easy to end up with code that depends on some subtle detail which you only find out about once you port.
But:
"John Singleton of Los Alamos and his collaborators have built a radio transmitter that incorporates a radio wave source that moves superluminally (faster than light). The emitted waves have several unusual properties. For example, they lose much less power over a distance than do ordinary radio waves; thus, they show promise for long-distance, low-power broadcasting applications."
From the link
Ordinary objects can't move faster than light. But consider a line of people where the first person snaps their fingers, then after a delay, the second person snaps theirs, and so on. The "snap" moves down the line with a speed determined by the delay, which can be arbitrarily short. Hence the snap can move arbitrarily fast.
This seems bogus to me - surely the propagation speed of the snap is limited by the speed of light.
Men are adversarial
No we're not.
No. This saucer company is named after Æsir, the True Norse Gods and will make drones that will be used to hunt down and KILL! Taliban and other Islamists in Afghanistan, Iraq and Malmö.
According to Norse theology those killed will then suffer forever in Hellheim. Soon the survivors will burn down their mosques and begin sacrficing to Odin to stop the attacks. Then it will be time to deal with the Christians. Eventually Ásatrú will dominate the world.
Mac office is designed to run on a different OS though. It's also apparently a different code base from the Windows version. I think the fact that Windows office is being ported to x64 means that Office is being made more portable now anyway. Really there's not much of an excuse for modern Win32 application not being portable to other processors, the problem is that Office has been around for ages and probably has a few x86isms like inline assembly back when that was necessary for performance. Or something like that. Anyhow Office 2010 will have both 32 and 64 bit binaries -
http://www.redmondpie.com/office-2010-x64-technical-preview-screenshots/
A quick Google for "Oblivion crash vista" gives things like this
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/trying-to-get-oblivion-to-work-on-vista#post-53749
I think x64 will dominate desktops and servers, but for code density the Thumb2 instruction set on ARM should be pretty good.